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| Preface | |
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| Abegg, Elisabeth | |
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| Adams, John | |
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| Alcock, Sir John William | |
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| Ali, Muhammed | |
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| Allen, Ethan | |
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| Anthony, Susan Brownell | |
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| Susan B. Anthony Dollar | |
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| Aquino, Corazon Cojuangco | |
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| Arias Sanchez, Oscar | |
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| Armstrong, Neil Alden | |
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| Sally Ride | |
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| Ashe, Arthur Robert, Jr. | |
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| Asoka | |
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| Aung San Su Kyi | |
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| Aung San | |
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| Barrios de Chamorro, Violeta | |
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| Biko, Steve | |
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| Bolivar, Simon | |
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| Boone, Daniel | |
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| Booth, William | |
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| Bradley, Omar Nelson | |
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| Braille, Louis | |
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| Bruce, Robert | |
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| Byrd, Richard Evelyn | |
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| Roald Amundsen | |
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| Carter, Jimmy | |
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| Habitat for Humanity International | |
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| Chavez, Cesar | |
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| Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer | |
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| Cid, El (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar) | |
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| Clark, William | |
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| Clovis (Chlodwig) | |
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| Columbus, Christopher | |
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| Crazy Horse | |
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| Ben Nighthorse Campbell | |
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| Crockett, David (Davey) | |
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| The Alamo | |
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| Dalai Lama | |
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| de Klerk, Frederik Willem | |
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| Decatur, Stephen | |
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| Dewey, John | |
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| Dix, Dorothea Lynde | |
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| Douglass, Frederick | |
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| Douwes, Arnold | |
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| Drew, Charles Richard | |
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| Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt | |
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| The Naacp | |
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| Dunant, Jean-Henri | |
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| Clara Barton | |
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| Earhart, Amelia Mary | |
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| Eastman, Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) | |
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| Eisenhower, Dwight David (Ike) | |
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| Eriksson, Leif | |
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| Erik the Red | |
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| Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins | |
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| Gallaudet University | |
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| Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) | |
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| Gargarin, Yuri Alexeyevich | |
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| Garrison, William Lloyd | |
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| Grant, Ulysses Simpson | |
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| Greene, Nathanael | |
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| Hale, Nathan | |
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| Hamilton, Alexander | |
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| Hancock, John | |
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| Havel, Vaclav | |
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| Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel | |
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| Inouye, Daniel Ken | |
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| Hiram Leong Fong | |
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| Jackson, Andrew | |
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| Jefferson, Thomas | |
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| Jemison, Mae Carol | |
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| Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) | |
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| Jones, John Paul | |
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| Joseph, Chief (Nez Perce) | |
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| Keller, Helen Adams | |
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| Americans With Diabilities Act | |
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| Kenyatta, Jomo | |
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| Kerrey, Joseph Robert | |
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| The Medal of Honor | |
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| King, Martin Luther, Jr. | |
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| The National Civil Rights Museum | |
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| Lawrence, Thomas Edward (Lawrence of Arabia) | |
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| Lee, Robert E. | |
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| Lewis, Meriwether | |
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| Lincoln, Abraham | |
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| Lindbergh, Charles Augustus | |
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| Luthuli, Albert John Mvumbi | |
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| Lutz, Carl (Charles) | |
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| Yad Vashem Righteous Among the Nations Award | |
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| MacArthur, Douglas | |
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| Madison, James | |
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| Malcolm X | |
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| Mandela, Nelson | |
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| Marshall, George Catlett | |
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| Marshall, Thurgood | |
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| Sandra Day O'Connor | |
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| McCain, John Sidney | |
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| Menchu Tum, Rigoberta | |
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| Mendes Filho, Francisco (Chico) Alves | |
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| Monroe, James | |
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| Mother Teresa | |
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| Religious Devotion and Social Action | |
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| Nelson, Lord Horatio | |
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| Ness, Eliot | |
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| Nevsky, Alexander | |
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| Nicolini, Giuseppe | |
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| Nightingale, Florence | |
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| Otero-Warren, Maria Adelina Emilia (Nina) | |
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| Owens, James Cleveland (Jesse) | |
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| Pankhurst, Emmeline (nee Goulden) | |
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| Parks, Rosa Louise McCauley | |
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| Patton, George Smith | |
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| Peary, Robert Edwin | |
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| Perez Esquival, Adolfo | |
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| Pinkerton, Allan | |
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| Polo, Marco | |
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| Powell, Colin Luther | |
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| Genreal Benjamin O. Davis | |
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| Quezon Y Molina, Manuel Luis | |
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| Revere, Paul | |
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| Richard I (Richard the Lionhearted) | |
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| Riis, Jacob August | |
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| Robinson, Jack Roosevelt (Jackie) | |
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| Romero, Oscar Arnulfo | |
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| Roosevelt, Eleanor | |
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| The Widow's Mandate | |
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| Roosevelt, Franklin Delano | |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial | |
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| Roosevelt, Theodore | |
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| San Martin, Jose de | |
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| Schindler, Oskar | |
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| Schmid, Anton | |
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| Schwarzkopf, Norman | |
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| The Purple Heart | |
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| Schweitzer, Albert | |
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| Seton, Elizabeth Ann | |
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| Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) | |
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| Smith, John | |
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| Stanton, Elizabeth Cady | |
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| Nineteenth Amendment | |
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| Tecumseh | |
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| Tubman, Harriet | |
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| Tutu, Desmond Mpilo | |
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| Walesa, Lech | |
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| Wallenberg, Raoul | |
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| Washington, Booker Taliaferro | |
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| Tuskegee University | |
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| Washington, George | |
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| Weill, Joseph | |
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| Wiesel, Elie (Eliezer) | |
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| Nobel Peace Frize | |
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| Wiesenthal, Simon | |
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| Winnemucca, Sarah | |
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| Xuan Zang (Hsuian-tsang; Hsuan-chuang; Huien-tsiang) | |
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| York, Alvin C. | |
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| Sources | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |